Otto, Duke of Austria
Otto IV, the Merry ( Cheerful, Latin Jucundus ) and the Bold ( Audax ) called (* July 23, 1301 in Vienna, † February 17, 1339 in Neuberg ) was Duke of Austria, Styria and Carinthia.
Life
Otto came from the family of the Hapsburgs. He was the youngest son of the Roman-German King Albrecht I and his wife Elisabeth of Gorizia - Tyrol the House of Meinhardiner.
His brothers were Kaše Rudolf, King of Bohemia, the German anti-king Frederick the Fair, the dukes of Austria Leopold the Glorwürdige and Albert the Wise and Henry the meek (not the reigning Duke of Austria ).
As the youngest son Otto was initially excluded from the rule. In 1325 he married Elisabeth of Bavaria ( 1306-1334 ), daughter of Stephen I, Duke of Lower Bavaria and Judith, Duchess of Schweidnitz. 1329 the administration of the Habsburg possessions, he was then transferred on the Upper Rhine ( western Austria ). From 1330 Otto ruled with his brother Albrecht, the Duchy of Austria. 1331 he was appointed to the Bavarian imperial vicar of Ludwig. Ludwig the Bavarian was after the death of Henry of Carinthia and Otto Albrecht on May 2, 1335 Carinthia and the southern part of Tyrol as an imperial fief.
Otto was possible to use on July 2, 1335 was the first Habsburg according to ancient custom in Slovenian on the ducal throne in the customs field as Duke of Carinthia, and took care of most of his government more to Carinthia as to the Hapsburg Austria. He donated the Klosterneuberg in Styria ( as a pledge for the birth of his first son Frederick ) and St. George's Chapel of the Augustinian Church in Vienna. In February 1335 he married Anne of Bohemia in Znojmo ( 1319/23-1338/40 ), daughter of the Luxembourger John of Bohemia, sister of Charles IV in 1337 he founded the Societas Templois, a knight Society of Prussia rides. His nickname refers to its convivial court life.
Otto died in 1339 and was buried in the Cistercian monastery founded by him to Neuberg. Died in 1344 his two sons, Leopold and Frederick, with 17 and 16 years within a few months - poisoning was suspected at the time. This went his tribe.
The Neuberger tomb fell and was forgotten until it was rediscovered in 1820. They restored it, and the bones of Otto, his two wives, Elizabeth and Anna and his two sons were buried in the solemn funeral service on March 13, 1820 renewed the tomb.
Progeny
His marriage to Elizabeth of Bavaria:
- Frederick II (1327-1344), Duke of Austria
- Leopold II (1328-1344), Duke of Austria